Russell Hobbs 2 Slice Toaster, Cream, Stainless Steel Gloss Finish

I’ve been using the Russell Hobbs 2‑Slice Lift & Look toaster in cream and stainless steel for a few days now, and it’s been a solid performer. The extra‑long slots easily fit thick or artisan slices—no more half‑toasted bread peeking out the top. The six browning settings give precise control from lightly golden to deeply toasted. The Lift & Look feature is a standout: I can check the toast’s progress without cancelling it, which saves time and avoids over‑toasting. The defrost, reheat, and cancel functions all work as expected and are helpful when dealing with frozen or cooling toast. Cleanup is simple—the removable crumb tray keeps the toaster hygienic. On the downside, several users (and I’ve noticed too) reported the toaster’s sides get quite warm during use—touch with caution. A few online reviewers even mentioned uneven toasting across the slice. Overall, though, it’s a stylish, reliable budget pick under £35, offering more finesse than basic models with useful features you’ll actually use. Given its price point and performance, I’d highly recommend it for daily kitchen use.

The best bit about this toaster is the long toasting slots. Too many toasters are not fit for UK style bread (proper bread) or long bloomer loaf slices. This one takes them all. The long slots allow the UK bread slices to be turned on their side so they are toasted properly. It doesn't really toast evenly, I find myself turning the bread around (top to bottom) towards the end of the burn time so it evens out. It's not too bad though. Also to start toasting we have to really push down the lever to latch it. Otherwise a perfectly good toaster which will actually accept UK/bloomer bread. Had it two years now and no issues. The check toast function is nice, you lift the lever to pull the toast up and you can check it without stopping the timer. Was also really good value compared to other toasters which can't do proper bread slices.

I've only just received this toaster and used it for the first time, but I absolutely love it. It seems very big to me as my last toaster was nowhere near this size, but it still looks very nice on my worktop. The slots look huge, both in length and width, and I can't imagine anything that wouldn't fit. To test it I toasted a couple of burger buns, set on 2. They popped up so fast I thought I obviously had it set too low, but they were toasted evenly a lovely golden brown and exactly how I like toast to be. A second set of buns had an identical result. I am so happy! Obviously it's early days (extremely), but there is nothing about the toaster that suggests to me it's not good quality, and with a 3 year guarantee there is no reason not to love it. One thing I would point out is the fact that it needs to be run at high setting while empty before the first use. They warn there may be some smell, which is normal. Thankfully I have an electric socket next to my back door and so I decided to stand the toaster outside the door while doing this. Being outside I don't know about a smell, but it smoked like crazy for a short while and had it not been outside, my smoke alarms would have been going insane! After that initial run I toasted the buns as normal and there was neither smoke nor smell. Absolutely recommend this toaster.

Not great. I’ve been buying this particular model in its various iterations for several years. It was reliable. It toasted evenly across both sides. But this latest version toasts unevenly with dark lines across the toast. Sometimes black where it over-toasts. It has filaments sticking out unevenly all over, which catch crumbs. Don’t even try a fruit loaf slice. On the more expensive similar wide slice version with led’s, a single slice of fruit loaf killed it off within the week. I don’t know what you’ve done to your previously awesome toasters, Russell Hobbs, but here, you’ve turned a really great cheaper toaster into a travesty. Not once have we received even an adequately toasted slice of bread from it, despite fiddling with the inadequately marked dials. It’s either under-toasting or over-toasting, with very pronounced grill lines. Don’t like. Wouldn’t recommend. As soon as we find an alternative wide-slice toaster, this will be going in the bin. Sad days.

Love my toaster. Very stylish Russell Hobbs item.

nice little toaster, compact and has the basic functionality that includes reheat and defrost. three stars as it was not durable, after 6 months the lever does not stay depressed in order for the toater to work. dissapointing.

lovely toaster , beats all the other ones I have had .

We did not have much choice in buying this toaster because it was the only one we could find that fulfilled our needs. As we bake our own bread we need a toaster with extra long slots which this one has. Most toasters seem to be produced for the standard Mother's Pride type bread size, our bread comes somewhat larger and we don't want to cut the top off! This product however does leave a lot to be desired, the toasting is not even, resulting in one edge being burnt and the reverse edge hardly brown. To get the slice down is not easy either and one has to really thump down the lever otherwise it will not engage. We feel that with a little more attention to detail and a price rise would make this toaster fit for purpose, to sum up, rather disappointing when it could be great.

I bought this toaster because of its long slots and that is the only positive thing I can say about it. Worst toaster I ever got by far. Impossible to get the toast done properly, either doesn't toast the bread or it burns the edges. Flimsy mechanism for lowering the slices. Toaster has stopped working after just 7 months and I am delighted to see the back of it. Now I am looking for a new one but I won't be buying a Russell Hobbs one, or anything from that manufacturer again. I don’t normally give negative reviews but in this instance it is well warranted.